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In article <2057pn$133@gw.home.vix.com> shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell Esq.) writes:
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>          It is the  fact that our  society still does  not give credit  to
>          fathers  as parents that gives rise to  tragedies such as the one
>          which you  covered on that  fateful day when the  Torres children
>          lost their young  lives.   Had it  been reversed, had  it been  a
>          mother on her  way to get  her children, and the  grandmother had
>          killed them,  I am confident  there would have been  several more
>          column inches devoted  to the anguish which the travelling parent
>          faced, and how disgusting and  unhuman an act the grandmother had
>          committed, rather than quotes  such as "It was a selfish  kind of
>          love..Carol was  too selfish  to  let the  father have  permanent
>          custody."
>
>          It behooves all of us,  especially our children, to remember that
>          fathers are parents too.
>
>
On a similar note, I have recently seen signs on busses in S.F. with the
text in foot-high letters "Come Between a Father and His Son - Report Child
Abuse" followed by a phone number.  The photo on the sign is of an adult
hand, presumably a man's, holding a child's hand by the wrist.  The child's
hand is open, palm up, with its fingers spread out.  I've seen 3 of these
(and I don't spend a lot of time on S.F. city streets) and they've all been
about fathers and sons.  Has anyone seen the mother/daughter version?  Does
it exist?

A recent poster on soc.men reported a study showing that, of children
battered so badly as to require hospitalization at least 3 times, the
perpetrators were %60 women (mothers?)

The signs are placed by the "Child Abuse Council" which is not a non-profit
org. and doesn't have a S.F. phone number, so I suspect it is a branch of a
federal govt. agency of some sort.

The question is, "Why are they promoting the distorted notion that child
abuse is exclusively a father/son-man/boy issue?"  If their budget is so
constrained that they could only produce one sign, should that sign not
have represented the majority case?

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